Layering and experimentation with materials is essential to my practice, letting the medium dictate the outcome by building up colors and textures, then tearing and sanding back down. As an Interdisciplinary artist, my work spans large-scale acrylic paintings on wood, intaglio and relief printmaking, analog and experimental photographic processes, and found metal sculptures, often blurring and borrowing from each other. Performance permeates my entire practice, as I often use my own body to connect with and create meaning within my work, whether as a reference, as a way of empathizing and humanizing, or as a way to intentionally experience the creation of the work. I find that I continue to return to themes around the relationship of the female body, the ecological world, and industrial spaces, and as such my work tends blur lines between each: women half made of plant material, textures of concrete mapped into organic spaces, trees that take a female form, animals made of metal - Creating a surreal quality while still maintaining aspects of realism in an atmospheric and satirical landscape.

I hold anxiety in the face of the overwhelming scale of environmental destruction: trash islands in the sea, rising CO2 levels, melting ice caps. As such, I am inspired by artists who examine our relationship to the earth and our role in its care and destruction. Such as Ana Mendieta and her way of connecting with the earth through her body, or Jaune Quick-to-See Smith’s use of symbolism and color to address environmental destruction. Much of my work is based on research and the sociopolitical connections of the current ecocide. The evidence I see of, and the personal research I do into climate destruction, naturally informs what's happening in the studio. The memories I hold of a childhood spent outside playing fairies in the mud also deeply inform my thinking. Being raised by a matrilineal line of environmentalists taught me to see the gift that is nature as something to protect because we are inherently part of it.

The figures I create are witnesses to collapse and future destruction, but also seek connection and care. I believe that an early bond with the natural world was one that we are all born with, but gradually forget as we are incorporated into an industrial world. I hold a deep conviction that the earth around us is a gift from our Creator, which we were entrusted to protect, care for, and nurture, yet humans exploit and destroy instead. In my art, I hold together lament and hope, both facing the damage we inflict and prophecying the road we are heading down, yet I am also hoping to call to action and look towards healing. I hope to call a viewer to consider their own role in these systems and their relationship to the earth. As I name what is broken, I lift up what remains, and imagine a future that could be.